No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean
George Santayana
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
Henry Ward Beecher
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions
Nathaniel Branden
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
Ashley Montagu
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world
Matthew Arnold
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry
Randall Jarrell
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
John Berger
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Matthew Arnold
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The end of culture is right living.
W. Somerset Maugham